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The state bank commissioner has taken charge of the Citizen's Bank of La Cygne. A colored barber in Atchison has spent $450 in reaching the 32nd degree in Masonry. County Attorney Berry, of Marshall county has commenced the work of closing joints. The Woodmen in session in Wichita voted that their next session shall be held in Emporia. Jerry Simpson has bought a $2,400 residence in Wichita and proposes to make it his home. Lawrence has granted a franchise to L. M. Erb, of New York, for an electric street railway. The three grand Masonic bodies held their annual sessions in Wichita, commencing February 18. It is now predicted that all of the exposition appropriations will be beaten in the legislature. During the late snow storms a central Branch train was 17 hours getting over 42 miles of track. The bill for an agricultural experiment station on the Fort Hays reservation carries $18,000. It is said that U. S. Marshal W. E. Sterne will move to California when his term of office expires. A drilling outfit has been purchased to make oil prospecting holes in the earth in and about Ottawa. Mrs. Kansas Eifert died in Pleasanton, within sight of the house in which she was born 43 years ago. The joints in Lawrence are mostly run by colored toughs, and there are many colored bootleggers. Ottawa wants some hotel man that has the stuff to do it, to put a hotel in their city to fit its 7,000 population. It is now announced that Secretary George W. Martin has given up his plan to compile a history of Kansas. Charles E. Gault, a prominent attorney of Topeka, has smallpox. The disease is quite prevalent in the city. A Pennsylvania man proposes to connect the mineral cities of Crawford and Cherokee counties with a trolley line. Two Kansas men have bought 2,068 acres of pasture and meadow land in Sedgwick county, paying for it $27,000. An invitation has been given to President McKinley to attend the G. A. R. state encampment at Junction City on May 8. B. F. Stocks, of Garden City, is seeking appointment as a member of the board of regents of the state normal at Emporia. A body of Arkansas City women pledged themselves to withhold all their trade from merchants who do not favor law and order. The Kansas Day club, a state organization, has met at ten annual banquets and at none of them has there been a drop of wine, whisky or beer. The national banks of Wichita, according to their statement for February 5, held as deposits, $2,963,664.84. Their last preceding statement was made for December 13, last, which showed deposits of $2,468,529.71. This shows an increase of $477,135.13 in less than two months. There are a number of people in the departments at Washington credited to Kansas, whom the Kansas members do not know. Congressman Miller finds 25 credited to him in the interior department whom he does not know. There will be a weeding out. Justice Brewer, who left the Kansas supreme court for his present place on the supreme bench of the United States, says that in his thirty years experience on the bench he has never been approached with a bribe or any intimation that a bribe might be his. The employes of the state senate that tried the Fallon-Stuart judicial contest in 1898 have put in claims for their services aggregating $5,000. The auditorium prepared for the rendition of the Messiah at Lindsborg seats 31,000 people. The affair commences March 31st and extends to April 7. The secretary of the Wichita W. C. T. U. informs the Eagle that resolutions have been passed that the saloon must go and that they will not accept any kind of a compromise. There are still between 400 and 500 rural delivery routes in Kansas being considered by the postoffice department. Farmers' institutes have been con-
